• Genre: Crime
• MPAA Rating: R
• AMG Rating:
• Regional Coding:
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Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious violence of American gangster movies, crime movies, and films noirs mixed up with the wacky violence of cartoons, video games, and Japanese animation; and the fragmented story-telling structures of such experimental classics as Citizen Kane, Rashomon, and La jetée. The Oscar-winning script by Tarantino and Roger Avary intertwines three stories, featuring Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta, in the role that single-handedly reignited his career, as hit men who have philosophical interchanges on such topics as the French names for American fast food products; Bruce Willis as a boxer out of a 1940s B-movie; and such other stalwarts as Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, whose dance sequence with Travolta proved an instant classic. ~ Leo Charney, All Movie Guide

Bonus Features

• cc "Pulp Fiction: The Facts" documentary
• Deleted scenes
• "The Charlie Rose Show" interview with Quentin
• "Siskel & Ebert at the Movies" "The Tarantino Generation"
• Production design featurette
• Behind the scenes montages
• Interviews from the independent spirit awards
• Palme D'or acceptance speach
• Reviews and articles analyzing the film
• Filmographies
• Theatrical trailers from around the world
• TV spots
• 8 different still galleries, featuring hundreds of photos
• Soundtrack chapter stops
• Enhanced playback track DVD ROM feature
• Screenplay viewer DVD ROM feature
• Open mic commentary DVD ROM feature

Actors

John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, Maria de Medeiros, Frank Whaley, Quentin Tarantino, Angela Jones, Peter Greene

Director

Quentin Tarantino

Producer

Lawrence Bender, Richard N. Gladstein, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein

Graphic Violence, Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Rape & Sexual Abuse, Not For Children, Adult Humor, Profanity, Substance Abuse

• Sound : DD5.1/DTS/DDS
• Language : Eng/Fre
• Subtitles : Spa

• Screen : WSE
• Dar : 2.35:1

Review

A critical sensation and a box-office hit, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994) embedded its movie-made world of loquacious hit men and fateful coincidences into the popular consciousness, becoming one of the most influential films of the 1990s. Updating the hard-boiled crime film with postmodern aplomb, and twisting movie time as adroitly as Orson Welles and Stanley Kubrick, Tarantino weaves a morality play through a pop culture fun house drawn from sources as disparate as 1950s and 1970s kitsch, Jean-Luc Godard, Howard Hawks, boxing flicks, Hong Kong action movies, and Kiss Me Deadly (1955). The surreal yet realistic atmosphere, long takes, and wittily pop-literate non-stop dialogue emotionally engage the viewer in the minutiae of the characters' experience even as the film also comments on their status as pulp creations, rendering the moments of shockingly baroque violence simultaneously humorous and ghastly. Winner of numerous critics' prizes and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Pulp Fiction was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for John Travolta's career-resurrecting turn as Vincent, and Best Supporting Actor for Samuel L. Jackson's furiously philosophical Jules; Tarantino and Roger Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. None of its many imitators has yet come close to matching Pulp Fiction's impact. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide

• Release Date : August 20, 2002
• Length : 154 Minutes
• Dvdsides : 2
• Dvddiscs : 2
• Upc : 786936161571